1990 Corvette Exhaust recommendation
Racer
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If you really want an aggressive sound, just go to a muffler shop and have them take off the mufflers. You can spend more money by buying a Muffler Eliminator but you can spend less then $100 by having the shop take off the mufflers and welding a pipe from where your mufflers were to your exhaust tips. It does drone and people can hear you coming but if you put the pedal to the metal, your car will roar.
Advanced
Joined: Jul 2013
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Heres my -96, long tubes, 3" cats, stock resonator and muffler eliminators.
http://nrj.1g.fi/kuvat/Autot/2013/20...0_Tapio_C4.MP4
If you would like a more refined tone, you could use borla xr1 or any other small racing muffler
They are more like tone changers than mufflers 
http://nrj.1g.fi/kuvat/Autot/2013/20...0_Tapio_C4.MP4
If you would like a more refined tone, you could use borla xr1 or any other small racing muffler
They are more like tone changers than mufflers
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Here is my car with a stock engine and ZZ4 cam. Exhaust is made up of TPiS longtube headers, home made 3" X pipe with high flow cats and straight pipes out back. To me this sounds pretty good for a 98% stock engine.
Last edited by Kubs; Apr 4, 2014 at 11:29 PM.
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If you want something loud but classy, spend the money and go for Corsa, might as well get the best if you can, I went from Eliminators, which were just different levels of the same noise and tedious on a long trip, to Corsa's, still turns heads all the time, best thing I ever did on the car..
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From: New Jersey
If you want something loud but classy, spend the money and go for Corsa, might as well get the best if you can, I went from Eliminators, which were just different levels of the same noise and tedious on a long trip, to Corsa's, still turns heads all the time, best thing I ever did on the car..
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Drifting
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From: ft myers FL/Munising MI
muffler eliminators are ok, but they drone... got headers and stuck two little cherry bombs out of an x pipe...then out.....big time sound... no drone....at wot...everyone can hear you......even law enforcement
Burning Brakes
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From: Auburn Michigan
I usually have my headphones on with only one ear covered up so I can still hear my wife and boy if needed...I put them on over both ears for this and turned it up.
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Last edited by cohocarl; Apr 5, 2014 at 08:28 PM.
Drifting
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From: ft myers FL/Munising MI
Do you happen to have any pics of your setup you could share? I've got a new set of Elites and an x-pipe ready to go on this summer and I'm also trying to get a few ideas...
I usually have my headphones on with only one ear covered up so I can still hear my wife and boy if needed...I put them on over both ears for this and turned it up.
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I usually have my headphones on with only one ear covered up so I can still hear my wife and boy if needed...I put them on over both ears for this and turned it up..
